While on our tour we got to see a lot of the beaches around the island of Florianopolis. I got some good photos, but here is one that I took with my iPod.
We ended up staying at the last stop on the tour to have dinner and to try to catch the sunset. For dinner, I ended up ordering french fries because that was the only thing I recognized on the menu!
We were in an old historic area, and apparently they have the first ever paved road there. I guess there was a portugal princess, Isabel, coming to visit and they also built a place for her to stay in and when she came, she ended up sleeping in a boat on the water anyways!
We were on our own to get back to the hotel from that historic area and decided that we would catch a bus back. If it wasn't for the Brazilian guy that spoke English we would probably not have made it back to the hotel. One thing that is different about their public transport is that you get on the bus and walk past the driver where another employee is sitting next to a turn style thing and they would take your money and give you change back for the bus fare. In Pittsburgh you have to have exact change because you won't be getting any money back.
Once we got off the bus and were back in Florianopolis, we decided to stop at the mall cause I few of us needed a few things before we left for the next city tomorrow morning. I needed to get some shaving gel and holy cow was that difficult. I went to a department store that had all kinds of stuff and I searched the whole store but I couldn't find shaving stuff anywhere. When I had given up hope, I started going for the exit and I noticed a counter that had stuff that looked like it could maybe be what I needed, but I would have to ask an employee to get it for me. Luckily there was a girl and guy working so I def went to the girl and tried to do some charades to explain what I was looking for. It turns out that pretty much everything behind the counter was aerosol deodorant, which is def not shaving gel. So I proceeded to make motions in the air of what I thought was shaving, so the girl took me to a nearby aisle and showed me wax strips. When she realized I didn't want that she went to a computer and opened up a translating site and then I was able to get what I needed (well sort of, they only had 1 type of shaving cream).
After that mission was completed I wanted to get a sundae because I noticed that there was a McDonald's at the mall. Well, I broke McDonald's... I ordered something called a top sundae which is basically a hot fudge sundae with some chocolate straw things in it. I paid with a card and the receipt jammed up whenever the employee was printing my receipt to sign. Apparently they didn't know how to replace the receipt paper so that it would stop jamming and she kept making worse. I had to basically just stand there and watch it happen since I wouldn't be able to communicate well enough to tell her what was going wrong. Meanwhile during this 15 minutes, a long line was growing when someone finally showed up to help the lady with the receipt paper. At least I still got some delicious ice cream.
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